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| Posted by msese
Mar 09, 2007 03:48 am |
The nurses in the Philippines who passed the 2006 Nursing licensure exam have found their Visa Screen Certification completely denied by the Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools (CGFNS). The CGFNS posted a notice on its website that its decision is final and cannot be changed since it is founded on the requirements of American law.
CGFNS authorities had earlier met on March 5 with a task force from the Philippines in Philadelphia, PA, in the USA who unsuccessfully tried to get the CGFNS officials to change their minds.
The CGFNS officials who met with the task force were counsel to CGFNS John Ratigan, Chief Executive Officer Dr. Barbara Nichols, and CGFNS Board of Trustees President Dr. Lucille Joel. The task force from the Philippines was made up of Alliance of New Nurses (ANN) head Renato Aquino; Philippine Nurses Association (PNA) and Commission on Higher Education (CHED) representative Dr. Remigia Nathanielz; Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) chairwoman Leonor T. Rosero; and Bacolod City Rep. Monico Puentevella.
According to the announcement on the CGFNS website, Nichols and Joel explained to the Philippine delegation that the CGFNS decision is founded on US law, as well as the requirements of US law of CGFNS under the conditions of the June 2006 testing. The main question is how US officials would have acted if faced with similar conditions, rather than how Philippine officials reacted.
Rosero was informed by Nichols that the decision about the problem which was made and posted by the CGFNS Board of Trustees on Feb. 14 was a unanimous one which cannot be reconsidered anymore.
For its part, Malacanang asked the nurses who passed the June 2006 Nursing licensure test to simply retake the tests if they insist on pursuing work in the USA.
This advice was given after the CGFNS reportedly denied an appeal by the Philippine government to reverse a decision denying US visas to the passers of the exams which were tainted with allegations of cheating.
Nurses who passed that exam can only retake the exams if their competencies are in doubt because of the cheating, said Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita. This would allow them to become eligible again for US employment visas.
The US-based CGFNS had previously categorized all passers of the tainted exams as not eligible for visa screen certificates. That is a requirement of US working visas and was caused by the doubt of the results of the exams.
The CGFNS declared that the passers should go through and hurdle the exams if they want to become eligible for US employment visas. Comments :
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